I’m not doing any comparison, I am saying don’t be a liberal and kid yourself about who Newt is. He goes with what is popular at the moment. That’s not a philosophy, that isn’t visionary thinking, it’s looking at opinion polls and seeing what most people like at the moment and then trying to claim the issue as you’ve been for it all along. It’s dangerous in the same way pure democracy is (two wolves and a sheep are voting on what to eat for dinner).
If that were true, we'd have a long history of flip-flops from Newt. Yet we don't have that. He's been remarkably consistent in his career since he started in Congress in the 1970s. So whatever you think you know, it's wildly exaggerated in your mind.
A populist did not get us the Contract for America and win the House in 1994—a visionary swimming against the tide did. For the previous 40 years, going along to get along was the way the Republicans became a permenant minority.
Newt doesn’t kiss people’s rear ends—he stakes a position and defends it. The popular opinion is that he needs to exit the race—so he stays in it!
He is the only Republican who will debate Obama right off the stage. He has set the tone of this campaign—look at the topic of energy for the past month. Obama had to respond to whom—Romney? No, he had to respond to Newt, and Newt gave it right back to him.
That is exactly what we need right now.